The Old Wives Fairy Tale Book

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book written by Angela Carter and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853814402
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virago Book of Fairy Tales written by Angela Carter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger.

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349008213
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales written by Angela Carter and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9789065503435
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales" written by Marina Warner and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752486799
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Mary Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?

Author : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722307
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Likes written by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, PopMatters A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s highly anticipated return weaves together like and unlike, mythic and modern In nine stories that range from the real to the unreal, strange to familiar, funny to frightening, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reminds us why her wildly original debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, and her masterful Ms. Hempel Chronicles have become contemporary classics--celebrated and beloved. In a nimble dance of lightness and gravity, Likes explores the full range and contradictions of our contemporary moment. Through unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars, the struggle to gain a foothold in the capitalist shell-game of work, the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old—these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class and the passage of time, form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the deceitful humdrum of everyday life. For readers of Joy Williams, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, and Deborah Eisenberg, Likes helps us see into our unacknowledged desires and, in quick, artful, nearly invisible cuts, exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.

Author : Jason Lairamore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whigmaleeries & Wives' Tales written by Jason Lairamore and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions, Legends, Folklore and Old Wives' Tales--where do they come from? How did they get started? What's the "real" reason we throw spilled salt over our shoulder or avoid stepping on a crack? What were the old women really afraid of when someone broke a mirror? We delve into the imagination with some theories!

Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435107557
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Craughwell
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780887628412
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Thomas Craughwell and published by Thomas Allen Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what lies behind many popular legends, urban myths and old wives' tales.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374524876
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Beast to the Blonde written by Marina Warner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1996-09-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge in romancing?